YELL/TELL: online community platform for teacher professional development

The community platform Young/Teen English Language Learners (YELL/TELL) was developed to respond to the needs of collaboration and sharing among trainee teachers, school teachers, teacher trainers and researchers in the field of language learning for English FL/SL. The current study focuses on ethnographic observation and data gathered during a workshop for professional development organized for experienced teachers. We compare the evidence of the teachers\u2019 actions, with the analysis of their perception about the professional use of the online environment and their critical reflection about the experience

SPEAKING CLASS BASED COABORATIVE VIRTUAL LEARNING AS MULTILITERACIES CONCEPT

Learning speaking for university students should be creative and innovative. In line with corona virus diseases- 19 most of educational institution need to implement online learning for all the subject, also for speaking class. Speaking skill had taught in collaborative and virtual model in University of Muhammadiyah Tangerang, because collaborative virtual engage student’s critical skill and speaking practice are facilitated well. This model is supported by the potential concept for teaching and learning speaking collaboratively in virtual, it called multiliteracies concept. Multiliteracies is a concept of scientific model in learning meaning , such as; linguistc meaning, gesture meaning, visual, and audio visual meaning. This research uses Class room action research with 35 sample of 2nd semester students from University of Muhammadiyah Tangerang. The result of this research shows that collaborative virtual learning is effective for teaching and learning speaking, because students are encouraged to speak and think directly while doing online discussion, as the implementation of multiliteracies concept for speaking this research also shows that students collaborative virtual learning become enjoyable and productive, because students required to design their own learning model. 

Towards analytics and collaborative exploration of social and linked media for technology-enchanced learning scenarios

Social Web applications such as "Flickr", "Youtube" and "Slideshare" offer a vast body of multimedial knowledge, discoverable through the appropriate search interfaces and API's. This extensive information source, however, is largely unstructured and the available metadata is typically limited to title, tags and description for a resource. On the other hand, Linked Web Data is both structured and well described through a variety of metadata. Combining those sources opens promising direction for knowledge discovery and, at the same time, new challenges for collaborative searching in various Technology-Enchanced Learning Scenarios. In this paper, we explore how to support (collaborative) search in such scenarios through an initial analysis of the Web data landscape and introduce early results from efforts on exploiting Linked Data techniques to solve critical issues in this context

Media Usage in Post-Secondary Education and Implications for Teaching and Learning

The Web 2.0 has permeated academic life. The use of online information services in post-secondary education has led to dramatic changes in faculty teaching methods as well as in the learning and study behavior of students. At the same time, traditional information media, such as textbooks and printed handouts, still form the basic pillars of teaching and learning. This paper reports the results of a survey about media usage in teaching and learning conducted with Western University students and instructors, highlighting trends in the usage of new and traditional media in higher education by instructors and students. In addition, the survey comprises part of an international research program in which 20 universities from 10 countries are currently participating. Further, the study will hopefully become a part of the ongoing discussion of practices and policies that purport to advance the effective use of media in teaching and learning

Media Usage in Post-Secondary Education and Implications for Teaching and Learning

The Web 2.0 has permeated academic life. The use of online information services in post-secondary education has led to dramatic changes in faculty teaching methods as well as in the learning and study behavior of students. At the same time, traditional information media, such as textbooks and printed handouts, still form the basic pillars of teaching and learning. This paper reports the results of a survey about media usage in teaching and learning conducted with Western University students and instructors, highlighting trends in the usage of new and traditional media in higher education by instructors and students. In addition, the survey comprises part of an international research program in which 20 universities from 10 countries are currently participating. Further, the study will hopefully become a part of the ongoing discussion of practices and policies that purport to advance the effective use of media in teaching and learning

Privacy preserving content analysis, indexing and retrieval for social search applications

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CollabGraph: A graph-based collaborative search summary visualisation

Currently, the search history in search engines is presented in a list view of some combination of enumerated results by title, URL, or search query. However, this classical list view is not ideal in collaborative search environments as it does not always assist users in understanding collaborators' search history results and the project's status. We present CollabGraph, a system for graph-based summary visualization in collaborative search learning environments. Our system differentiates from existing solutions by visualizing the summary of the collaboration results in a graph and having its core personal knowledge graphs (PKGs) for each user. Our research questions concentrate around the CollabGraph's usefulness, preference, and enhancement of participation of student's and teacher's feedback compared to the list view of search history results. We evaluate our approach with an online questionnaire in six different project-based searching as learning (SaL) scenarios (LSs). The evaluation of users' experience indicates that the CollabGraph is useful, highly likeable, and could benefit users' participation and teacher's feedback by providing more precise insights into the project status. Our approach helps users better perceive about everyone's work, and it is a highly preferable feature alongside the list view. In addition, the results demonstrate that graph summary visualizations, such as the CollabGraph, are more suitable for closed-end scenarios and collaborative projects with many participants

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning

Awareness and reflection are viewed differently across the disciplines informing Technology Enhanced Learning (CSCW, psychology, educational sciences, computer science and others). The ARTEL workshop series brings together researchers and professionals from different backgrounds to provide a forum for discussing the multi-faceted area of awareness and reflection. Through the last ARTEL workshops at EC-TEL the addressed topics are converging towards the usage of awareness and reflection in practice, its implementation in modern organisations, its impact on learners and questions of feasibility and sustainability for awareness and reflection in education and work. To reflect the growing maturity of research in ARTEL over the years the workshop particularly invited contributions that dealt with the application of awareness and reflection in practice. This is encapsulated in the workshop motto: 'Awareness and Reflection in Practice: How can awareness and reflection technology become common in work practice and how does it change work practices?

Contexts and Conditions for Successful CLIL in Portugal

Comparativamente com outros países europeus, em Portugal a abordagem CLIL não está universalmente presente no ensino público a todos os níveis. A implementação da abordagem CLIL nas escolas tem vindo a ocorrer sobretudo através da política top-down do programa PEBI, do Ministério da Educação, e por via de diversas iniciativas de base bottom-up realizadas em algumas escolas, embora a extensão da prática CLIL ou da formação de professores CLIL não tenha sido até agora sistematicamente rastreada. O objetivo deste capítulo é mapear a emergência da abordagem CLIL na educação pré-primária, no ensino básico e no ensino secundário português e dar a conhecer contextos diversos e relevantes de implementação, prática e formação de professores CLIL, de forma a orientar a compreensão do que, neste contexto, se passa nas escolas. O capítulo inicia-se com uma breve descrição do estado da arte da atividade CLIL nas escolas portuguesas tendo por base a investigação já realizada a este nível em Portugal. Segue-se um estudo exploratório sobre (1) o âmbito da implementação da abordagem CLIL em Portugal; e (2) a oferta existente de formação de professores CLIL. Apresentam-se e discutem-se resultados obtidos a partir de um inquérito realizado por questionário em formato eletrónico, enviado às escolas em Portugal, e de uma investigação documental sobre o envolvimento das escolas portuguesas em projetos financiados pelo Programa Erasmus+, com enfoque na abordagem CLIL, e sobre a formação contínua acreditada para professores. Nas conclusões destaca-se que (1) no que se refere à implementação da abordagem CLIL, esta não está uniformemente distribuída em termos geográficos; tem uma expressão muito diluída nas escolas; há uma fluidez de práticas comunicacionais no conjunto dos diversos usos de CLIL ao nível linguístico e sociocultural; e é valorizada, pelos professores, enquanto recurso educativo e cultural. Em relação à (2) formação de professores, o estudo revela que para além do programa oficial de formação e monitorização PEBI, os fundos europeus são utilizados pelos professores para desenvolver projetos escolares e adquirir formação, visando o aprofundamento do seu desenvolvimento profissional. O mapeamento das condições e possibilidades de implementação de CLIL nas escolas portuguesas leva as autoras a recomendar que seja dada mais atenção a uma dinâmica de formação e de prática CLIL em diversos contextos disciplinares.In comparison with some other European countries, CLIL is not universally present in mainstream education across all levels in Portugal. CLIL is mainly known through the ‘top-down’ policy of the PEBI programme of the Ministry of Education and by several ‘bottom-up’ grassroots initiatives of CLIL implementation in schools, although the extent of CLIL practice or teacher education for CLIL has not been chartered systematically. The purpose of this chapter is to map the emerging CLIL terrain in Portuguese pre-primary, primary and secondary schools, and report on varied, relevant environments of CLIL implementation, practice, and teacher education in an effort to help CLIL teachers and teacher educators navigate what is really happening in schools. The chapter starts with a brief state-of-the-art description of CLIL activity in Portuguese schools, addressing what has been written about CLIL in schools in Portugal, followed by an exploratory study inquiring into (1) the extent of CLIL implementation; and (2) the provision for teacher education in CLIL. Using an online questionnaire sent out to schools in Portugal and desk research on school involvement in Erasmus+ funded projects about CLIL and accredited in-service school teacher education, the chapter proceeds to present and discuss the results of the study. The chapter concludes that (1) in relation to CLIL implementation, CLIL is not evenly distributed in geographical terms; its presence in schools is somewhat ‘diluted’; there is a fluidity of communicational practices around the multi-layered uses of CLIL in relation to linguistic and sociocultural factors; and CLIL is valued by teachers as an educational and cultural resource. In relation to (2) teacher education, the study reveals that beyond the official PEBI training and monitoring programme, European funds are used by teachers, through project development and staff training opportunities, as a means for further professional development. Having chartered the conditions and the possibilities for implementing CLIL in Portuguese schools, the authors recommend that more attention is given to developing a dynamic of training and practice across disciplinary frameworksinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio